Fair Week

Every summer I look foward to fair week back home (Burley).  Most of my family comes into town every year at this time which is what I love most about it.

We started the week off by going to the parade. I am not going to lie, it was pretty lame. But the girls LOVED it. Brylee loved the horses....except for that she kept pointing and yelling "puppy" every time a horse passed by. Haha, she's so cute.

Tacey and Trey

I love these two, they play so well together. And seriously never fight.

Little Bry. My Smiley Brylee wasn't so smiley that entire week which was such a bummer. The poor girl is cutting like 4 teeth right now ):

This is my cousin Shay who is holding Tacey. She is amazing. I would love to steal her and have her come live in Rexburg with me. Always so kind and sweet and amazing with my girlies.

FYI: yes that is Tacey drinking out of Brylee's bottle. She was so thirsty so I took the lid off of Brylee's milk and Tacey went to town.

Rhett kept himself busy by playing outside(: He took the kids for lots of little rides!

Here are the two babies taking a ride, they seriously couldn't be any happier.

Bry for sure has a future in playing the piano, she shows real promise.

Dad and Rhett finished off the deck that week too. We spent lots of time out on the deck. It looks so nice and feels so much bigger. Just has to be stained!

We spent two evening at he rodeo...or as Tacey would say the "radio." haha

Dad and the Coop Man

My SAWEET boots!

Tacey ate WAAAY too much cotten candy. I was so scared she was going to be sick. She was off the wall hyper and was climbing all over everyone. Luckily we were surrounded family.

I am so completely overwhelmed by how far behind I am on blogging. We have been so busy and done so many fun things this summer I want to get it all on here. So hopefully there will be a bunch of posts coming!

Family

 This is my mom's side of the family..The Tegans! My mother (Tracey) died when I was four years old. I admit I do not get together as often as I would like with the family, but I sure appreciate the times I do have with them. I love them all so much. It is always so fun to hear stories about my mom, I treasure every story I have ever been told about my her. Rhett and I almost didn't make it to Raft River for these family photos but I am soo happy we did.              
                                                        This is all the Tegan women(:

And the whole family!

This was a picture taken of the family 6 years ago. The funny thing is Rhett is sitting patiently by the photographer. Rhett and I had just started dating and we couldn't talk him into taking a picture with us all. Dangit, I wish he would have! I knew I was gonna marry him!

All About Tazer Bug

Tacey Birthday was clear back on April 30. Can't believe I haven't blogged about it yet, but better late then never. All these pictures were taken with my phone, so the quality is HoRriBle! 

Our Tacey Girl turned 4!! She is getting soo BiG! Thanks to everyone that came, you all made Tacey's day! 

Tacey had a Repunzal Party. It had to be princess and it had to be PINK!

Tace had to make a few cupcakes herself. People were a little nervous about eating the ones that Tacey frosted. It's just a little colored frosting People! I thought they were delicious and she was VERY proud.

Daddy helped with the cupcake decorating too. When I got a little overwhelmed getting ready for the party Rhett jumped in and did the cupcake design. I was super happy with how it turned out. Good Job Babe!

This is a nAsTy picture of me, but it's a good memory(:

OFF TO SCHOOL

Tacey also had her first day of preschool. It was actually supposed to be her 3rd day of school, but that is right when she caught the stomach bug so she started a week late.

School has been soo fun. I am going to be as sad as she is when it is over. I love having her come home and telling me everything she learned that day. She has made some fun new friends and loves her teachers!

When she gets up in the morning she request how she would like her hair done for school. On her first day of school she asked me to straighten it. She is so cute.

Tacey's Dance Recital!

This is my third post today, so feel free to keep scrollin down if ya have the time. I am trying to get caught up today. Hopefully next up will be Tacey's birthday party, that is long overdue!

RECITAL TIME!!
Tacey had her dance recital back on the 14th. It was seriously the cutest thing I have ever seen. This was Tacey's first time being up on stage and it is the only time the girls have ever performed their dances. Tace knew something Big was going on but I don't think she knew exactly why she was up on stage in front of a bunch of people. They did their ballet first (which Tace is not as familiar with as her tap) and her dance teachers were down in front telling them what to do by markin the moves and telling them to smile. Right when the music started Tacey just whipped out these random dance moves that I have NEVER seen her do before. Then she realized her teachers were right in front of her helping her. Tacey was concentrating so much on her teachers telling her what do that she was doing EXACTLY what they were doing. Cindy would tell them to spin by moving her finger so Tacey would just give her a confused look and spin her finger too. About half way through the dance she figured out what was going on and started doing the dance. We were laughing so hard. She for sure had the hang of it by the time she was up there for her tap dance. At the end when all the others girls were running off the stage Tace stood there and did a little curtsy and then ran off. My abs hurt at the end of the show from laughing so much. Each time before her dances started to would find us in the crowd and wave and give us a thumbs up. Her personality shines no matter where she is. I was such a proud mama, seriously it brought tears to my eyes to see my little girl up there dancing.
I was also so touched by how many people came to support Tacey. Rhett and I didn't do a very good job at spreading the word but still so many people came. My mom and sister Brikelle drove all the way from Logan and Grandma Warren drove up from Idaho Falls. Aunt Lori, Uncle Cody, Kayla, Shay and Travis all showed up too. Thanks guys so much. It really meant a lot to us.

Briky and Brybry

Tacey and her dance teachers Cindy and Kim

 

My mom and Brybry waitin for the show to start

We are missing Grandma, Lori, and Shay in this picture.

I have been trying to upload the videos of Tacey's two dances but can't seem to figure it out. Is there a trick to it??

Project

I don't know if anyone remembers, but like a year ago I blogged about a "table" (it's actually a headboard) that I found at the DI. I have been wanting to paint that thing for the past year. Well, I finally did it! I sanded it, primed it, and then painted it ivory. I honestly thought I was going to spend a few days on it but once I started I just couldn't stop til I was done. I did it start to finish in about 4 hours. My hand lookes and feels a bit deformed now from holding spray paint can for so long, but it was well worth it. I love it. Here are some pics!

BEFORE

AFTER

I am going to add one more thing to it, but I am going to need Rhett's help with it. I will post another pic when I am completely finished with it!

~Brylee is 18 Months~

 This my friends is why I quit breastfeeding her early. Do you see what she does to this bottle??!! She sucks the living life out of her bottles and binkies. This picture was taken an hour after she got done drinking her milk, the drop-in is sucked up into the nipple. It cracks me up every time I have to take these bottles apart.

I do not choose to still put her in this infant carseat, that is all her. She plays in that thing all day long. She cracks me up, she used to HATE this thing. We still use it occassionaly when we ride in Rhett's pick up or something.

Holy Cow, where does the time go? I remember when Tacey was 18 months, she seemed like such a big girl to me. But Brylee still seems like our little baby. I have been trying my hardest to just enjoy her as a baby. I don't want to make any promises, but there is a good chance Brylee might be our last baby, so I seem to get a bit more emotional with these milestones this time around. Luckily Brylee plays along and makes me happy, she is so good to let me wrap her up in her blanky and rock her. I love every second of it.

Brylee has picked up on so many words and phrases, it still amazes me everytime I hear her talk. She says way too many cute things to list them all but these are some of my favorites.
-In the morning she is usually the first to wake me up, she yells from her crib: "MOM! MOM! I WANT OUT! haha, I always wake up laughing.
-Whenever she is done eating she says: "Done. I want down."
-"outside" is by far her favorite word. All day long that is all I hear.
-"shoes"
-"owey" If Tacey or anybody else has an owey, so does brylee, and always in the exact same spot.
-"wee" that is what she is constantly saying in the car or going down the slide. She sounds just like that commercial with the pig hangin it's head out the car window yelling wee. I think of that every time.
-another thing I hear all day long is "mama, mama, mama, where's daddy?" I will answer her with "at work." she will smile at me and then repeats the question. We go through this about a million times a day.
-she calls Tacey "Teecee"
- "LETS GO"
-she smiles at everyone we see and says "hi" "bye" and waves. I've seen her make a million grumpy lookin people smile. (:

She has her 3 beloved "wawa's" still. (blanky, binky, bottle) She can say all three of those words but for some reason they are called wawa's at our house.
I have been really lucky with both my girls to be able to communicate with them so well when they are so young. Tacey wasn't talking as much at this age as Brylee is now, but she was so good at communicating with sign language. She knew all the signs better than Rhett and I did. But Brylee on the other hand is talking so well but is not interested at all in sign language. She is familiar with it and knows what a lot of the signs are, but she would honestly just rather learn to say the word then to do the sign. Either way I am just happy to be able to communicate. It is nice when they reach the age where they can tell you what they need and you aren't having to constantly guess.

If you haven't noticed Brylee is still completely bald. Well to be fair she still "looks" completely bald. A few hairs have sprouted in the past few months. I have actually been a fan of the bald head, headbands still look so dang cute on her and I know it will be so crazy trying to get ready when I am having to do mine, Tacey's, and Brylee's hair. Plus her bald head makes her seem so baby still, I can still rub baby lotion all over her head, which I LOVE.

I also have to say what a STINKER this little one is. She smacks, hits, punches, does the EXACT OPPOSITE of what I ask her to do, and she does this all with a freakin cute smile on her face. She is the hardest child to punish cause she is still my "smiley brylee."
Love You Baby Girl

I love, love, love my new calling!

Back in January I got called to be the primary pianist.

I have struggled with just about every calling I have ever had. Mostly the ones that require me to get up in front of everyone and speak. Totally out of my element. So when I got called into the bishoprics office I just knew I was going to get a teaching calling, but to my surprise it was so play the piano! I am very rusty, Rhett and I do not have a piano. So I have to go in 10 minutes early every Sunday to practise. But I love how this calling has still been a such a FUN challenge for me! I still get a little nervous every Sunday, but it is an EXCITED nervous. I know I was meant to have this calling. Heavenly Father helps me every Sunday. I get a lot of songs thrown at me that I have NEVER heard before( I rely on my ear too much), and so sometimes I will get done playing a new song and think 'how the heck did I just do that?' I still make ton of mistakes but I know I am being helped(: I love primary and I love playing the piano. The spirit is so strong in that room. I go home every Sunday with a smile on my face. And everytime one of those little ones get up to pray my heart just melts. Plus, I also get to spy on my Tacey Girl. Luckily I am hid in the corner so she can't really see me. And that's another thing I love, being hid in the corner! So perfect for me, the primary presidency is always apolgizing for me being hidden, but it is perfect for me. I have met so many wonderful new women (our ward is HUGE), I feel so blessed.

ps..everybody always asks me what Rhett's calling is...and that would be chasing a 16 month old through Sunday School and Priesthood. haha.

And, I also realize that my last few posts have been so random and a lot more detailed. It's a new goal if you couldn't tell(: I can't wait to print it off and give it to my girls. They love our blog! They will seriously sit down at the computer and just scroll through the entire thing. I think it will be so cool for them to look back on.

HOPE YOU ALL HAD A HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

And Happy Mother's Day to MY MOMS. Love You All.